while in practice it leads to the decline of sound work and company growth

It is elusive because it is unattainable, like an ideal or perfection. It manages to evade/elude the best intentions and plans.

They then weaponize this insecurity to enact untold violence, always in the name of producing an impossible and elusive “safety.
https://inquest.org/reclaiming-safety/
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Paper-based systems limit a company’s ability to create a safe environment.
The elusive safety culture.

Companies try to create a safe work environment with the tools they have available. A popular option has been to implement incentive programs to help promote a safer environment. However, these initiatives didn’t get the desired results. Instead of reducing accidents, employees chose not to report all the accidents that did happen.

https://www.sitedocs.com/case-digital-safety-management/

English term (edited): for the sake of elusive safety

a "safe to use" organisational structure in the sense of "will keep the organization running smoothly"

OR

with the difficult to achieve aim of creating a reliable/efficient organisational structure


Both "safety" and "elusive" have been used with a very "elastic" interpretation of what they're supposed the mean. What could be the real intended meaning is not obvious at first.

OTOH, if you look at what is "the opposite" described in the next sentence:

"bureaucracy paralyzes the organization and frustrates employees"

the intended meaning gets "defined by its opposite"

First: anytime there a mention of "bureaucracy" that is a reference to some kind of "organisational structure", complete with all sort of rules and procedures. Most of the time there is some negative connotation with "bureaucracy", as when some "organisational structure" becomes too rigid (or there is an intention to present it as such), then it starts getting called "a bureaucracy".

--- paralyzes the organization = the opposite of an "organisational structure" that contributes to the efficient functioning the organisation.

--- frustrates employees = the opposite of an "organisational structure" that helps employees to be more efficient.

IOW

--- "safety" in this ST hasn't got much to do with either "safety at work" or "security" of any kind.

It's about having a "safe organisational structure" - one that you can "safely" rely upon to "keep the wheels turning"

--- As for "elusive", it has nothing to do with "illusion of safety/security", as a superficial first reading would suggest.

"elusive" in this ST simply means "difficult to achieve", like "goal posts that keep moving". No matter how much improve your "organisational structure", there is always something missing.