You have the job but not the money!

In any organization, higher responsiblity equates with with higher compensation. There is no other way to make people do more work except to give him more money. It is true, in fact all the times.
People talk and talk and talk. They talk back too. Not like my Compaq Proliant servers. Nor Nortel PABX systems. Nor fiber optics backbone. Yes, money could silence them and make them work. Just like camels carrying things across the desert obediently.
In this organization, you can be appointed to a higher job and actually doing the higher job functions, yet you are paid at the rate that of lower (previous) job.
You will only be paid at the rate of higher job ONCE you attend and pass the assessment.
If you do not pass the assessment, they will give you another try after one year. If you fail again, you’ll be transfered back to the previous position, but in most cases, to any available lower position within the same skill group, since the previous position has been filled up by others.
So assuming higher position in this organization is pretty risky. You may not be permanent there if you make blunder in the assessment.
It seems cruel, but the management argues that we need the driver and not the passenger to take this organization to a greater height.