Club president Mark LoGiudice promised "a genuine and exhaustive process" to recruit a full-time replacement for Malthouse, lest any cynicism exist regarding the track record of Carlton's HR department.
She previously worked as an HR director in the voluntary sector, where she recruited and trained volunteers.
Should you ask your HR department and risk having your policy cancelled?
Increasingly, big companies are handing over entire HR departments and the systems that support them to outside specialists such as Hewitt, Accenture and Convergys, says Duncan Harwood of PricewaterhouseCoopers.One way for manufacturers to manage growing complexity is to adopt common standards.
It may cut out some HR jobs, but it does not alter the main business.
My HR department has begun harassing me, because I somehow failed to sign up for my 401(k).
Unfortunately, if I can't settle those questions definitively for myself, the chances that an HR department can solve them for everyone else look fairly dim.
Techniques honed in the HR department can be readily transferred to the customer-services department, and filling in expenses claims online is a lesson in electronic procurement.HR departments used to spend much of their time answering questions from employees.
International Paper had already raised its HR department from the bottom quartile of big companies, where costs were $1,600 per employee, but it says its deal with Exult will propel it to the top quartile, with costs of $800 per employee.
Exult, set up in 1998 by General Atlantic, a private-equity firm, specialises in running the routine aspects of corporate HR.
Kennedy Information, a firm of analysts, estimates that the global HR outsourcing market will grow by 25% a year for the next few years.
